Musical Program Auralization: Empirical Studies

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 477-489

  Vickers, Paul ^a   Alty, James L ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

auralization; debugging; Human Factors; Languages; Music; Pascal

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749563994     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1101530.1101546     Document Type: Article

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